The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-08
PERSONAL ANp oENERAL.

the new gun mandatory at the yard, ana
he desires publicity to be given to the fact
and applications sent to him before jan
uary 10, stating the qualifications OF the
persons making application.
GENERAL MILES called at the War De-
partment on the Goth and had an extended
interview with Secretary Endicott. The
General left Washington in the evening
for New York to remain a day or two
before proceeding to Prescott, Ariz. where
he will direct the removal Of his head
quarters to Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Miles
Will accompany her husband West.
NONE of the Illinois ladies in Washing
ton intend to keep open house or hold re-
ceptions on New Years Day, out Of re-
spect to tine memory of General Logan
and in Difference to the sore affection OF
Mrs. Logan.
PEDAR SATHER, q well-known capitalist
and sole owner Of the bank of Sather q
Co., of San Francisco, died at his residence
at Oakland on the Goth, after long ill
ness.
GEORGE W. CHILDs and A. j. Derexel, of
Philadelphia, have contributed $1,000 each
to the fund for Mrs. John A. Logan, and
John Wannamal5er contributed $500.
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think there will be any legislation this
winter to reduce the surplus. The time is
| too short and there is too great disagree
ment on both side of the House He says:
'The American people can not be made to
realize any situation until it is actually
upon them"
Two thousand brewery employees are on
q strike at Philadelphia.
FIVE persons were killed at a fire in
Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, on the
3Oth.
IRA BICKEL, Of Waubeck, Ia, killed his
father with a club on the SOth.
LORD HARRINGTON has declined to enter
Lord Salisbury's cabinet.
HALF of the town of Marlboro, Md, was
destroyed by fire on the goth.
MICHAEL DAvITT was married to Miss
Mamie Yore, at Oakland, Cal, on the 3Oth.
GENERAL KAULBARs has been attached
to the staff of the Grand Duke Valdimer
at ST. Petersburg.
A BANQUET was tondered Governor
Charles Robinson by the Jefferson Club
at Lawrence, Kas, on the night OF the
3Oth
Hon. w. H. SMITH is to succeed Lord
Randolph Churchill as leader of the Con-
servatives in the House of Commons.
PEPPINA LAToRRE, an Italian girl, fell in
front of an Elevated railroad train at New
York on tho Both, and was crushed to
death.
JOHN DILLON, has furnished the bail Of
$1,000 required by the recent decision
against him for agitating the "Plan Of
Campaign"
Mrs. EMMoNs, wife of Prof Emmons,
the geologist, who mysteriously disap-
peared at New York after her arrival from
England, was found at Wormly's Hotel,
Washington.
PARIS diplomats consider the statement
that General Boulanger has not reduced
his supplemented estimates as another
evidence that war is not remote.
THE Paris correspondent of the London
Times claims to have information from an
undoubted source that Germany and Rus
STA signed a direct alliance nearly three
weeks ago
| WILLIAM A. PINKERTON, in an interview
on the 30th, stated that Si3, 600 Of the money
stolen from the Adams Express Company
had been recovered. The total amount of
cash obtained according to Mr.. Pinkerton,
was $4,000.
TELEGRAMs from Los Andes, Chill, re.
port heavy falls of rain and snow. The
cholera in Medoza has somewhat abated
On the 28th fourty-four new cases and
eighteen deaths were reported.
A REPORT is current that Mexican troops
and revolutionists have had a terrible
fight in Sinaloa, Mexico, and many were
killed on both sides. The report has moi
yet been confirmed.
A LETTER recently received from the
wife Of Mr.. Justice Woods of the United
States Supreme Court, who is spending
the winter in Southern California on ac
count of his health, states that the justice
is better, and he has gained some flesh.
MRS. DON CAMERON is at present lying
= very Ill of typhoid fever in Washington
/ and her family are much concerned at the
sudden development of that malady, i
l only having declared itself on the Both.
GENERAL MILES is brave man, bu
T. there is one thing he did not care to do
and that was to remain in Washington OF
New Years day. He would have had t
don the full uniform of Brigader-Ge
eral, march TO the White House and after
! ward call upon the Secretary of War and
! everybody of providence receiving OF
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THE marriage of Marshal MacNIahon',
daughter to Marquis Kelvin took place il
, Paris on the 3Oth. Prince Murat was pres
, ent on behalf of ex-Empress Eugene
= Princess Mathilde signed the marriag,
: contract The church was splendidly dec
- Grated.
LIEUTENANT VIM II. EMORY has beer
ordered to command the Thetis, one of. tn
Greedy relief vessels, which has been re
+ fitted at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and will
q be attached to the Pacific squadron. Tn
=. Thetis is TO be stationed in Alaskan
J.. waters to actin conjunction with the Pinta
which is not regarded as entirely safe 70
r | open-sea cruises.
The st. Petersburgh Academy of Sc
ences has received a telegram from Di
II Bunge, at Orlinga, reporting the success
/ full termination of the labors of the Rus
n sian expedition which has been explorin
n the region around the mouth of the Len
E. river in Eastern Siberia, and the new S
N berian islands, where the Jeanette expo
dition came to grief
The American Society of Naturallsts a
81 its session in Philadelphia on the BOT
| p1pctnd tho foIlo,y-ir ~ oHl,,rs. D-,c;l,,,,